The beginning of another year brings renewed obligations for all broadcasters who are operating a non-interactive webcast. If you're a COMMERCIAL webcaster, check out your to-do list here.… Continue Reading
All you non-interactive webcasters thinking about your budgeting for, say, the next five years: the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced the rates and terms that will apply to your operations for the period January 1, 2011-December 31, 2015.… Continue Reading
The Copyright Royalty Board has announced that noncommercial webcasters must pay a $500 per channel annual minimum fee to perform copyrighted sound recordings during the 2006-2010 rate term. Big deal? Not really. But . . .… Continue Reading
As July slips into August, it's time to remind television broadcasters that Copyright Royalty Claim forms -- for cable retransmission copyright royalties and/or satellite copyright royalties earned during 2009 -- are due at the Copyright Royalty Board by August 2, 2010.… Continue Reading
For the upcoming 2011-2015 webcasting royalty term, the CRB is looking to impose overall terms and conditions identical to those reached in privately-negotiated settlement agreements developed in 2009.… Continue Reading
Inferiority never felt so superior. By successfully painting themselves as "Inferior Officers", the judges of the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) have dodged a preliminary bullet.… Continue Reading
As expected, the Copyright Royalty Board has reinstated the $500 per channel annual minimum fee for both commercial and noncommercial webcasters.… Continue Reading
The Copyright Royalty Board has proposed -- again -- to impose a $500 annual payment requirement for non-interactive webcasters. If you want to comment on the proposal, you have until January 22.… Continue Reading
After years of proposals and deliberations and interim policies, the Copyright Royalty Board has published "final rules" dictating the playlist reporting requirements for webcasters. But the "new" rules may be of little more than academic interest to many.… Continue Reading
Last week we reported that SoundExchange had reached a couple of agreements affecting non-CPB noncommercial webcasters. The terms of those agreements have now been published in the Federal Register. Read all about them here.… Continue Reading
Last month we referred to the "pureplay" settlement as the "final piece" of the webcasting puzzle. Our bad. Turns out there were more settlements - four separate ones, to be exact - still to be completed.… Continue Reading
The D.C. Circuit has (with one minor exception) affirmed the 2007 webcasting royalty decision of the Copyright Royalty Judges, AFTER the private parties affected by the royalty decision had worked out various deals largely circumventing the CRJ decision. And for the second time in two weeks, the Court has mentioned, without resolving, serious questions about the constitutionality of the CRJs.… Continue Reading
It's only been a few weeks since the Webcaster Settlement Act was enacted and already it's working! A settlement agreement reached under that Act covers webcast royalty rates for "pureplay" webcasters for the years 2006-2015.… Continue Reading
The Copyright Royalty Board has issued a Notice of Inquiry as part of the current proceeding in which it proposes to increase the frequency of filing playlists with SoundExchange, Inc.… Continue Reading
